Ihor S. Paleogene-Neogene deposits of the Crimean continental slope

For many years, Ukrainian researchers from oceans and seas carried out systematic work to study the geological structure of the Crimean Peninsula, its coastal zone, shelf and continental slope within the Ukrainian territory of the Black Sea. The research was mainly based on geophysical, bathymetric material, echolocation data and the material of a few profiles of dredging the territory of the Crimean continental slope of the Black Sea. Therefore, data on lithology, stratigraphy of deposits and the evolution of the tectonic structures of the continental slope are still not systematized and until recently remain extremely fragmentary and poorly understood. The author of this work carried out a complex of lithological, geochemical, facial, structural-geological, geological, mineralogical and cartographic (using GIS) works to study the composition, structure, age, position and origin of Paleogene and Neogene rocks on the Crimean continental slope of the Black Sea. According to the results of the work, it has been proved by the competitor that the breeds of the Paleogene and Neogene on the Crimean continental slope of the Black Sea are mostly allochthones, the formations have complete lithological analogues in the areas of the Plain Crimea, the Mountain Crimea and the Kerch Peninsula on the land and in the areas of the northwest, Kerch Shelfs and deep water of the Black Sea. The mapping database based on the geological structure of the Crimean continental slope of the Black Sea and three-dimensional geological and geomorphological models based on the results of the study allowed to simulate sedimentation and structural-geological conditions of the investigated site.